US President Trump has withdrawn the US from dozens of international organisations, including many that work to combat climate change. Nearly half of the 66 affected bodies are UN-related, including the Framework Convention on Climate Change – a treaty that underpins all international efforts to combat global warming. …The White House said the decision was taken because those entities “no longer serve American interests” and promote “ineffective or hostile agendas”. …As well as the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the US has also withdrawn from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the world’s leading authority on climate science. Non-UN organisations affected include those focused on clean energy cooperation, democratic governance and international security.
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